“The type of flattery that has reached dangerous proportions today is the absurd adulation and lionization of movie stars and other celebrities.”

“Such servile flattery shows neither regard for the state and the nation nor any self-respect.”

“He was not the sort of prince who adored flattery and adulation, public appearances and such.”

“The constant flattering of human beings around the flame of vanity is so much the rule and the law.”

“Yet perhaps he is only some false flatterer who is scorning us all the time.”

“The crowd's loud cheers and shouts of applause were typical of the flatterer, excessive and insincere.”

“He agreed with Pareto that universal suffrage promoted the corrupt and devious political skills of the flatterer, the wheeler-dealer, and the populist demagogue.”

“I was standing by the paddock surveying the latest in a line of equine flatterers and good-for-nothing loafers in which I was about to invest.”

“Your closest retainers and flatterers have never led you astray before and they will not fail you now.”

“Wisdom is also needed in picking and satisfying his closest advisors and avoiding flatterers.”

“But unwavered by these tricks, Indifferent to these flatteries, You Will go forth knowing that their Powers cannot be taken lightly.”

“He has not sought to ennoble her heart so much as to weaken it with flatteries.”

“Far geographically and mentally from the contemporary market of the flatteries and the squeezed of it of eye.”